Video support in Next version 1.3.1 (downloaded archive)

[jbmestelan]

Hello,

I have downloaded the latest Guix pack from https://next.atlas.engineer/static/release/next-linux-gtk-webkit.tar.lz. Trying to play YouTube videos fails with message 'Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available'.

So either me or the sentence below is missing something:

This is a complete bundle that includes all the recursive dependencies and requires nothing but a recent-enough Linux kernel.

(Note: I see that two closed bugs concern video issues; but #327 relates to an install from the Guix channel, and #191 states the bug should be corrected in Next 1.2.1.)

For the record, I have tried to install some local packages, which did not solve the issue:

sudo aptitude install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-libav

Thanks for attention.

Information

• OS name+version:
  Debian GNU/Linux 10.1 (Buster)

• Kernel name+version:
  Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 Build hangs on eql5 make #1 SMP Debian 4.19.67-2 (2019-08-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux

• Desktop environment / Window manager name+version:
  XMonad 0.15

• Next version (from =M-x next-version= or =next --version=):
  1.3.1

• How you installed Next (Guix pack, package manager, build from source):
  Guix pack from https://next.atlas.engineer/static/release/next-linux-gtk-webkit.tar.lz
  SHA-256 checksum:
  ba8da6db96655dff084269625c41f52b0bd765b8f6c9d4c0cb66a152e83c3447

[Ambrevar]

It's possible that video don't work from the Guix pack, but this is a little hard to fix because they are optional dependency for WebKitGTK. The only way I can think of fixing this is to implement the concept of a "search path" in WebKitGTK for the gst plugins. We should work on this with upstream. That said, if you've installed the gstreamer plugins as per the command line you shared, it should work. Can you share a URL of a video that does not work for you?

[jbmestelan]

The video at this URL fails with the mentioned message.
More generally, all videos I have tried from YouTube, DailyMotion of InfoQ have the same problem. I can confirm I have executed
sudo aptitude install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-libav
and relaunched Next.

I will try to install from Guix, but obviously the archive is an easier way for introducing newcomers.

[Ambrevar]

Try cleaning ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0 and restart Next. Also can you see if Epiphany (GNOME Web) works for you with the same videos?

[jbmestelan]

Thank you Ambrevar for the suggestions:

Try cleaning ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0 and restart Next.

Done, with no improvement.

Also can you see if Epiphany (GNOME Web) works for you with the same videos?

Installed epiphany-browser, which indeed works for the same videos.

[jbmestelan]

Also, can confirm the behaviour on another machine. Hardly surprising, since they mostly have the same configuration (minimal installs of Debian Buster).

On this second machine, I initially noticed that neither Next nor Epiphany could not load the videos; then installed the gstreamer1.0* packages. After that, the videos could load OK in Epiphany, but not in Next.

[jbmestelan]

Got videos working by installing Guix, then

guix pull
guix install next gst-libav gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-ugly

~/.guix-profile/bin/next

Other than that, I am not sure how I can help tracing the cause of the error with the Guix pack, or whether you would consider it worth investigating?

Kind regards.

[Ambrevar]

I think other users have had it work, so I'm not sure what was wrong for you here. Maybe an incompatibility between the host libraries and the Guix pack libraries? You could report the log in ~/.local/share/next/next-gtk-webkit.log when a video does not load, maybe that will give us a clue.

[jbmestelan]

Thank you Ambrevar. I do not see that ~/.local/share/next/next-gtk-webkit.log contain anything helpful. Let's close the issue as inconclusive.

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[Ambrevar]

I don't see anything help either :(